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LOT 2154
Natural History - Fossil Fly
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 50 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 1/4 in. (34.25 grams, 57 mm).
In a rounded sandstone matrix. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From South West Wyoming (Green River Formation), USA.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
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